Biography irina wunder
- Bio.
- CAS | Performing Arts: Katzen Arts Center.
- Wunder was born in Turkmenistan where she graduated from the State School of Dance.
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Faculty
David Arce
David Arce began his training at Ballet Yuma with Jon Cristofori and Kathleen Sinclair. After receiving a full scholarship to San Francisco Ballet School, he then danced with San Francisco Ballet for 13 seasons, Artistic Director of Juline Regional Youth Ballet for 10 seasons, Assistant Artistic Director of Mid-Columbia Ballet for 2 seasons, Trainee Program Director at Ballet Idaho, and is currently teaching/coaching/choreographing in the D.C. area. His list of accomplishments with the San Francisco Ballet include principal and soloist roles in Balanchine, Robbins, Forsythe, MacMillan, Martins, Morris, de Mille, Petit, Ratmansky, Caniparoli, Tomasson, Kudelka, Welch, Wheeldon, Adam, Possokhov, York, and Lubovich. Additionally, he has performed throughout the world with San Francisco Ballet and independently at many galas, festivals, and international ballet competitions in Asia and Europe. Mr. Arce has taught master classes, coached, and choreographed domestically and abroad including Japan, China, Malaysia, Arizona, California, Idaho, Mississippi, New York, W
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Dr. Irina Scherbakowa
Honorary member of the ZfL, publicist and translator
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Irina Scherbakowa is a Germanist and historian. Her research interests include oral history, totalitarianism, Stalinism, the Gulag, the Soviet special camps on German land after 1945, questions of cultural memory in Russia, and the politics of remembrance. In the late 1970s, Scherbakowa began recording interviews with victims of Stalinism. In 1991, she began studying the KGB archives. Following her years of work for journals such as Sowjetliteratur, Literaturnaya gazeta, and Nezavisimaya gazeta, she became a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin as well as at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. She was a guest professor at the University of Salzburg and a lecturer at the Center for Oral History at the Russian State University for Humanities in Moscow from 1996 to 2006.
Up until it was definitively banned in February 2022, Scherbakowa worked for the International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society Memorial (Moscow) which was awarded the Nobel Peace Pri
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- Irina Wunder
- CAS | Performing Arts
- Katzen Arts Center
- Bio
- Irina Wunder, an ethnic Russian, received her classical dance training in Turkmenistan, then a republic of the former Soviet Union. She performed with the Republic's State Theater of Opera and Ballet and was a guest artist with the National Ballet Company in Lima, Peru. Wunder holds a Master's degree from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (London, UK), specializing in
research on safe and optimal practices of performing artists. Currently, she is on the faculty of the Dance Institute of Washington in Washington, D.C. and Ballet NoVa in Arlington, V.A.
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